Prostitutes of god

Journalist Sarah Harris has made a documentary about temple prostitutes in south India -Devadasi girls are dedicated to a Hindu deity and spend their lives selling sex.

– Interview by Matilda Battersby

…. Living a normal life in India after having been a Devadasi prostitute isextremely, extremely hard because they’re seen as damaged goods. In Indiamarriage is everything. If there’s any suggestion that a girl has had sexbefore marriage then she’s ostracised from society. Women are still stonedto death in some villages for those kinds of transgressions. So it’s verydifficult for them to rebuild their lives.

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